I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Oriana FallaciRead
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
Interpretation
Love is temporary and can change over time, much like the seasons.
In this quote, Oriana Fallaci suggests that what people often consider love between partners is fleeting, akin to the changing of seasons. Initially, love can be lush and vibrant, resembling a flourishing garden in spring, but as time passes, it can decay and diminish, becoming less appealing, much like the remnants of autumn leaves. This perspective highlights the transient nature of romantic love and warns against the idealization of its permanence.
In practice
To reflect on the nature of relationships during a wedding speech.
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
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